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All Worlds, All Times is a performance workshop exploring plural futures for technosignature detection and the unknowns at play across discovery processes.

Imaginative practice connects Technosignatures and the scientific search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI) to process-based methods and fresh transdisciplinary approaches in Outer Space Studies. The performance workshop invites participants to step into future scenarios of 2050 and explore the detection of a technosignature through a different lens and shifted situation. Improvisation practice explores how collective imaginaries and embodied decision-making gathers readiness for the unknown. Blending play, policy, and poetics, the participation of the attendees opens up questions around understanding science, law, ethics, meaning-making, technologies and ecologies in future times, under radically altered conditions and constraints.

Created by Theresa Fisher, Kate Genevieve, Angelica Kovačević, in response to the Post-Detection Imagination Scenarios Toolkit (George Profitiliotis et al.) with additional input from Diana Solano-Oropeza, Edward Males, and members of the SETI Post-Detection Hub and the SETI ECR network, the Order of the Octopus. Illustration by Will Scobie. Sound by Adam Freeland. With thanks to all participants as co-creators in play, to Benjamin Fields and Emily Finer for facilitation, and members of the SETI Post-Detection Hub, Order of the Octopus and Furtherfield Gallery.

After a successful 2025 with R&D workshops in Scotland, and in-person performances at conferences with mixed audiences of scientists, researchers, artists and technologists, including PSETI 2025 and 4S Seattle, the workshop can now be played online. We are glad to hold All Worlds, All Times for the IAU Symposium IAUS404 “Advancing the Search for Technosignatures” in March, and have more hybrid performances booked in Aotearoa New Zealand (Wellington), France (Paris) and Georgia (Tbilisi) later in the year.

Please make contact if you are interested in attending or running the workshop.

Produced by the Astro Ecologies Institute, with collaborating researchers from the SETI Post-Detection Hub and the Order of the Octopus, with support from Pūtaiao ki te Pāpori/School of Science in Society at Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington. Published under the Creative Commons Attribution–NonCommercial–ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0).